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RRI helps refine Bolivia’s national forest strategy
At the request of the Bolivian Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, RRI collaborated with the Bolivian government to help refine the country’s national forest…
Recommendations issued on supporting community forest management and enterprise
Representatives from community forest enterprises and 40 countries issued recommendations for supporting community forest management and enterprise during the international conference in Brazil last July….
Study reveals rising role of local communities in protecting forests
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RRI’s regional Dialogue on extractive industries,
communities, and territorial rights in Bogota, Colombia addressed the boom in the extractive industries in Latin America. The Dialogue brought together NGOs and community leaders…
In Bolivia, RRI collaborators
successfully advocated to halt the government’s plans for opening a highway through the TIPNIS.
In Guatemala, RRI supported local communities
and their allied NGOs in establishing a mechanism for civil society monitoring of the implementation of the communal lands registry and cadastre process. The Guatemalan…
In Peru, RRI helped in the registration
of approximately 200 native forest communities, which paved the way for the next steps toward recognition of collective land rights for indigenous communities in the…
Afro-descendant and indigenous forest communities
in Colombia influenced the government and the World Bank to create a more inclusive and participatory Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) for the national REDD+ strategy.
The “Participatory Cartography and Rights to Territory and Resources” conference
in Bogota set new parameters for analyzing who, why and how communities should/could utilize approaches to mapping for their needs in the future.
RRI’s regional RRI Dialogue for Mesoamerica,
held in El Salvador, provided a space for frank and open discussion between decision makers and civil society organizations on the role of forests in…
Lowland indigenous organizations
in Bolivia bolstered negotiation capacity and participated in governmental decision-making at the governmental on key legislation related to territorial rights, representation and natural resource management.
RRI supported more than a dozen pilot communities
in six countries in Latin America to take their tenure and management claims to a higher level of dispute, with clear data, maps and assessment…
Supported the establishment
of the first alliance of forest community organizations from highlands and lowlands in Guatemala, increasing their visibility and voice in national policy issues related to…
Established a national level
Bolivian working group of key NGOs – linking highlands analysts to lowland analysts and practitioners – to help the key indigenous and peasant organizations analyze…
5 catalytic projects
supporting pilots or implementation reforms (Bolivia, Guatemala, Suriname, Central America, Amazonia)
5 new analyses/reports
on national-level reforms
3 national-level conferences/workshops
(Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil)
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